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Travels with Charley: In Search of America

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Travels with Charley: In Search of America

SKU: 9780141186108 Category: Product ID: 11241

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Title: Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Author: STEINBECK JOHN
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 23/05/2001
Imprint: PENGUIN BOOKS
Price: $23.00
Publishing status: Active

In 1960, John Steinbeck set out to rediscover and document his native land; accompanied only by his dog, he travelled all across the United States in a pick-up truck. This Penguin Classics edition of Travels with Charley includes an introduction by Jay Parini.When he was almost sixty years old, worried that he might have lost touch with the sights, the sounds and the essence of America’s people, Steinbeck took note of his itchy feet and prepared to travel. He was accompanied by his French poodle, Charley, diplomat and watchdog, across the states of America from Maine to California. Moving through the woods and deserts, dirt tracks and highways to large cities and glorious wildernesses, Steinbeck observed – with remarkable honesty and insight, with a humorous and sometimes sceptical eye – America, and the Americans who inhabited it. What he saw was a lonely, generous nation too packed with individuals for single judgements; what he saw made him proud, angry, sympathetic and elated. His vision of how the world was changing still speaks to us prophetically through the decades.

ISBN: 9780141186108